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| DATE | 2004-09-02 |
| FROM | Billy
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| SUBJECT | Re: [hangout] Re: Advocacy vs. Zealotry vs. Who Cares?!?
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On Thu, Sep 02, 2004 at 04:32:17PM -0500, Steve Milo wrote:
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> The whole concept of comparing people who strongly believe in Linux over
> microsoft to zealots is just ridiculous.
> Personally I would not stake my professional integrity on anything that has
> to do with microsoft. Ms products simply *do not* win any point when
> compared to Linux. When someone asks me well if I find this software for ms
> and there is no equivalent how do I do that in Linux? I tell them 'you have
> to think about what it is you want to do'. More often than not you can see
> the gears start turning. The other person starts to quickly realize that
> they quite possibly have control over their own hardware. Wow what a
> surprise!
> What if I want to burn a CD where do I get that software?
> The software is there.
> Is it extra?
> No, it is there, you paid for the software
> when you bought Suse 9.1 Professional.
That's funny, it's always been free for me..
I've never BOUGHT a copy of GNU/Linux in my life. Why should I?
I DONATE, but I don't expect to gain ownership of anything by doing so.
> Hopefully ms will get beaten back into its corner in the northwest. I have
> little doubt that the ignorance level of graduating Comp Sci majors will
> decrease exponentially.
Why exponentially? Why not linearly or even geometrically?
> is because its not on the desktop as predominantely as windows. I
> told him two things. 1) I challenged him to find a virus that would
> crash the machine we were using. I told him I would give him a dollar
> if he found one that caused the machine to freeze or crash or do
> something it wasnt supposed to be doing. 2) I told him that tons of
> corporations and the federal government use Linux for their servers.
> You would think that by this time someone would have found a way to
> compromise those machines.
Gimme a break... Here's the vulnerabilities in Red Hat THIS MONTH:
http://assburger.org/prepu/uilaou
There's plenty of ways into Linux machines.. Yes it's more
secure than windows, but don't go around wagging your finger
(and your dollars) in people's faces.
By the way, I've NEVER EVER EVER gotten a windows virus,
and I use it as much as I use Linux lately, with no AV software.
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